Increasing servers' tips: What managers can do and why they should do it

Journal of Foodservice Business Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 87-96

  Lynn, Michael ^a  

^a 335 Statler Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer satisfaction; Sales; Service; Tipping; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845599613     PISSN: 15378020     EISSN: 15378039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J369v08n04_07     Document Type: Article

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